Summer SAD

Why you feel blue when the sun shines

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Many of us are sunflowers: We need lots of sunshine to thrive, grow tall and blossom. A few of us are more like the trillium you find on the forest floor, a shade-loving, spring-blooming perennial woodland wildflower. Most of are probably more like shamrocks, which are happiest in bright, but not direct sunlight. One chance [...]

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Desperately seeking summer

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“Is light therapy good for summer depression?” “I’m sad when it’s cloudy.” “Why am I sad in warm weather?” I am touched by the Google searches finding my posts about warm weather blues and Summer SAD. If you’re feeling consistently blue during the summer, it may be Summer SAD, or it may not. While less [...]

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Happy Solstice | Welcome Summer SAD

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Summer relief? Many people breathed a silent sigh of relief yesterday with the official start of summer in the Northern Hemisphere. “Finally. I made it through winter again.” Ironically, just when we feel it’s really, truly safe to go outside and we can bask in the warmth of the sun, the daily minutes of sunshine [...]

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